it was declassified in 1997 by president clinton and george clooney bought it and wrote a screen play and it took a long time. one of the things that i love about it is that it's a genuine american success story. we have had a lot of things that haven't gone our way. and i think folks feel that and they feel a little bit of that disappointment, and this is something that was involving american ingenuity, cooperation with the canadian government, so you had that international level. but we got this thing right and it feels enormously good to me. and it's a tribute to our state department diplomats who are serving overseas in great danger, as we've seen, and our clandestine folks who have no credit, no recognition. i got to meet a lot of folks like that from the state department. and i was really moved. it's a pretty extraordinary form of service. >> what you have also is really interesting casting with alan arkin and john goodman. give us the sense of what this story is about for people who might not have read "argo." >> there's part of it that is really, really funny. i know that soun